Apparatus for treating air with liquids.



k"To 'all whom it.

- regiaknown t at I, Jam ,m1-nimes,

"ofthe United .States,aifid`fresident l "-"-off`Philadelphia, county ofPhiladelphia ingAi'r with Liquids, o

"and "State of Pennsylvania, havel .invented an Improvement in Ap aratus"for Trea-twhich vthe followin is a specificatlon.

he object of my invention is to provide a simple and inexpensiveapparatus withfwhich air may betreated to the-action of `liquids in aneffective and economical manner; such operations "being useful inhumidifying'air in textile Amills or for buildings genera ly, forlcoolingair in summer n and warming it in'vvinter, for removing noxiousor poisonous gases frornjair 4or neutrahzln-g them for co lectmgperfumes, for

collecting nicotinV in. -tolnaic'to21.ratInents,`

concentrating soda and otherliquors from mercerizing and other processesand for many other uses'inthe industrial'farts where air, pure or ladenwith gases, is' required to "be modified. n v

My invention consists of a conduit structure through which air iscirculated by a t ciation. with which condut*is} a anged"""cijtliquidvof 'the tank or yum flow of air currentsifan'd fsu Pessethe conduitstructure abovelth'ekdisks 'madel ina more'or less sinuous orirregular form i i *MQ pivde )downward upon the main body of theexytures above t,

im .thea-'newest r stood "by re erenee l Whichsuitable blower orexhaust/er, and-in' assoor 'more tanks for containing liquidto beused intreating thelairfand'oneror'more *sets of rotatable disks ps1-:ny t fexposed surfaces 'being t lapping each other'to provide the airpassage-or conduitywhichinsures sultable disturbance of the air 'duringits .Myl invention further consists in having deiecting parts todirectthe- 4air posed ortons'of the disks and therebyin- ,the

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15. lThe disk13, of'one'shaftf staggered', with. the v between'thedisksandi 'thereby `lin- "sure a l portions of the airbeing fully sub-]ected` to" the action of the moisture on the` y invention alsoccompehads" details' if Fig.' 8 is a `transverse sectional view of thesame, on line ais a conduit havingv was lower 'portiamthe tanks 8 'and 9which are'provided pipes 10Iand 1'1"for :them and withipes. 12

or draining them when desired.

ese ipes may be arranged .in any suit ble'way This con uitcontactwiththe moisture `on the disks (to bet described) and tofcause aVprecipitation of anyI excessivequantites of suspend moisture carried olfwith the air.

partly su merged in'theli'l'uid contained'y 1 n v8 and 9,y areathe.several seriesy of disks 18. shown, there are' al series of transverse'shafts upon of which ytherer 'are arranged a plurality 'ofdisks'ofmetalor other suitable material, saidi .shafts `heing Snifrbiy 50m-naad iin1mm;gs-ami` seed i to rotate, preferably in thesamexdirection,

' vel*` gears'- j bv a connecting shaft -16 and` disks of the `extadje#` with su' plymg 'liquid to ed so cent shaft andoverlap so thattheyprovide I contracted passages V'at 'intervalsxin the con-- duit byreducing the space 4for air between the disks. 'I shave 'shownffour o5disks" arra will many' sets of all of them may. whereA only one"particular `illust 'in two `Aoverlapping pairs;y but yit overlap adi dis employed trono myli'n re 1 is a chine embpdying my invention; l 2 cjiiixdersbood thatgtheremay beas y disks employed as .desjrediii

